Last weekend I roasted a whole pumpkin. When the seasons change from summer to fall, I instinctively want to cook with pumpkin. I crave it; I make muffins, soup, risotto and of course, pumpkin pie. To save on time I usually use organic canned pumpkin. But this year I decided…
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What did you do last Sunday? We had crab sauce. Grandpa’s crab sauce. It’s an epic event that takes place once a year. So you better be there… We start them young… Go through a lot of napkins… And it’s worth every last stain. * Grandpa’s crab sauce dinner is an…
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I’m a big seasonal eater. Now that it’s fall, one might think it’s time to gorge yourself on pumpkin muffins and gingerbread lattes (although that does sound tempting…) But for me, seasonal eating means to save your berries for summer and eat your root veggies now! Eating this ways is one…
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Up until now, you couldn’t pay me to eat a raw beet. Cooked beets, I love. But to me, raw beets smell like the earth. The earth smells like dirt. So I’ve only assumed that raw beets taste awful, yet I’ve never actually tried them. Meet Chioggia beet; the hypnotizing,…
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This was supposed to be called frozen watermelon slice, not ice. I had this brilliant idea of making frozen watermelon slices. I would scoop out the flesh, purée it, and freeze the juice in its shell. When slightly thawed, I would cut into slices. We would eat them like popsicles…
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